Plate with Tiger in Bamboo (c. 1700): Art, History and Details
Plate with Tiger in Bamboo at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1700, Porcelain with overglaze color enamels (Hizen ware, Arita type). Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Plate with Tiger in Bamboo (c. 1700) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
This plate expresses an effective coupling of physical form and painted ornament. The artist bent the bamboo stalks on the right and the minimal landscape below to fit the contours of the dish. The tiger is drawn in long, fluid brushstrokes and filled with yellow overglaze enamel, conveying the hairy and striped nature of a tiger’s fur.
Object facts
- Title: Plate with Tiger in Bamboo
- Date: c. 1700
- Culture: Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
- Type: Ceramic
- Technique: Porcelain with overglaze color enamels (Hizen ware, Arita type)
- Dimensions: Diameter: 21.1 cm (8 5/16 in.); Overall: 3.3 cm (1 5/16 in.)
- Collection: Japanese Art
- Department: Japanese Art
- Accession number: 1964.256
Collection credit
Severance and Greta Millikin Collection
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